Jonathan Saxty
Jonathan Saxty is an entrepreneur and assistant editor of Brexit Watch, writing for journals including the Telegraph, Express and The Spectator.
Is there a cultural Iron Curtain emerging in Europe?
Central and eastern European states want a better standard of living, but not at the cost of their sovereignty
A real world of consciousness
Communism in Poland was brought down by an underground network of learning, journalism and culture that flourished in defiance of state control
Tube strikes aren’t socialist
Why do so many on the Left back poor quality public services?
Germany in the Baroque Age
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the cultural achievements of the Baroque Age in the German states
Celebrating the cycle of life
The universal realities of life, love and death are at the core of the strength of the monarchy
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)
The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
Childhood’s end
A medical vanguard aims to arm children against their own nature
Welcome returns for three Irish writers
Why is the publishing industry so obsessed with debuts?